Inventory of the Lisa Tuttle Collection:

ca. 1975-2004

Manuscripts and papers
retain the author’s arrangement. Books are integrated into the Science Fiction
and Fantasy Research Collection and the Evans circulating collection, with a
note in the online catalog record: “Lisa Tuttle Collection.”

Lisa Tuttle was born September 16, 1952 in
Houston, Texas, and began writing while a child at The Kinkaid School. In her
teens, while a student at Mirabeau B. Lamar High School, she became actively
involved in science fiction fandom, and re-established the Houston Science
Fiction Society with the help of
Joseph F. Pumilia,
Joanne Burger,
Bill Wallace,
H.H. Hollis and others. She founded, edited and
published the first few issues of the club fanzine,
Mathom, at the same time writing for her
school newspaper,
The Lamar Lancer. She attended Syracuse
University, where she was involved with the university’s science fiction group
and wrote for the fanzine
Tomorrow And… as well as for underground
and alternative papers of the time. After attending the Clarion Science Fiction
Writers Workshop in the summer of 1971 (held that year at Tulane University in
New Orleans) she made her first professional short story sales. After receiving
her BA (in English and Creative Writing) in 1974, she moved to Austin, where
she worked for
The Austin American-Statesman for the next
five years, writing short stories in her spare time. She was one of the
founders of the informal writers’ workshop known as the Turkey City Writers
Workshop and Neo-Pro Rodeo, along with
Joe Pumilia,
Steven Utley,
Howard Waldrop,
Jake Saunders,
George Proctor and
Tom Reamy, all of whom began their writing careers
in the early 1970s. In 1981, Lisa moved to London to marry the writer
Christopher Priest. The marriage was short-lived,
but she continued to make her home in Britain. Since 1990 she has been living
in a remote, rural part of Scotland with her husband,
Colin Murray, and their daughter, Emily. She won the
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1974, the Locus Poll Award in
1976, an Analog Analytical Laboratory Award in 1981, the Nebula Award in 1981
(declined), the British Science Fiction Award in 1989, and has been
short-listed for others, including the Tiptree and the Arthur C. Clarke awards.
Her writing includes non-fiction, children’s books, science fiction, fantasy,
horror and some fiction less easily categorized.

The Lisa Tuttle Collection consists of books, manuscripts, galley
proofs, and magazines tracing the career of the author. The collection is a
work-in-progress, with additions from the author as they become available.

Usage Restrictions

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog of Cushing Memorial Library. Researchers wishing to find related
materials should search the catalog under these index terms.

The items from the Lisa Tuttle Collection are shelved by call number
in the Science Fiction Research Collection. Second copies are shelved in the
Evans Library general collection. Please use LibCat (the Texas A&M
University Library Online Catalog) to find call numbers.

Series 14. ITEMS SEPARATED, 1975-2001.

The following items from the Lisa Tuttle Collection are shelved by
call number in the Science Fiction Research Collection. Second copies are
shelved in the Evans Library general collection. Please use LibCat (the Texas A&M
University Library online catalog) to find call numbers.

The Familiar Spirit (Original story), mss, 44 sheets,
with letter from Charles Grant, with comments and revision suggestions.
Author’s note on original folder: "This is the
original version (1979) of
'Familiar Spirit' – as a short
story. The letter is from Charles Grant (I’d sent him the story as a submission
to one of his Shadows anthologies in 1979) and is what inspired me to expand
the story into a novel. Lisa Tuttle, 13 April 2005."

Face to Face: With the Uncanny World of Lisa Tuttle, in:
Seventeen 31(8): 313-318. August
1972. Tuttle notes:
"Face to Face with the Uncanny World
of Lisa Tuttle” – my first 'big break'&
national publicity!"